Tag: entertainment

I was honored to be invited by Little legends the other day to the sports launch of little knickers and teddy tennis at Sportsmania JLT. This was the very first time Princess Z participated in outdoor sports or games and I was really happy to see her energy level and delication.Even though the weather was not on our side, we were having a great time nibbling on the snacks (provided by The Change Initiative & More Cafe) at the same time watching our little ones participate. Heres all you need to know about the programmes to keep your kids actively busy at the same time entertained for hours

Play,Have Fun & Get Active

LITTLE LEGENDS

Little Legends was established to give pre-school and nursery children between the ages of 18 months to 7 years in the UAE an early opportunity to discover sports in a fun, welcoming and pressure-free environment.

That is why they have introduced two of the world’s best sports education curriculums; Little Kickers and Teddy Tennis.These two programs have been developed in the UK with the best and professional certified coaches, child experts and nursery school teachers in order to ensure that children are getting the best.

LITTLE KNICKERS

Little Kickers focuses football to children in a fun way.Aiming children between 18 months to 7 years.The program also provides many educational and important pre-school learning concepts such as colour and number recognition, sharing, teamwork, following instructions and using imagination.

Coach explaining the gamesLittle kickers postioning themselves for some funHaving fun around

Little Kickers has four different football classes tailored to four different age groups:

Teddy Tennis is a curriculum based sports program developed in the UK that inspires children aged 2 to 6 years to get active and learn to play tennis. It works by combining Music, Pictures and Teddy Bear Characters into a totally interactive learning adventure that young children love.

It is taught using the Visual Auditory Kinesthetic (VAK) learning style. Applying this learning approach to teaching has proved to be very effective, particularly for young children and works brilliantly in Teddy Tennis lessons – they’ll see it, they hear it, they do it and they get it!

The coach explaining the game Honey Racket SandwhichSecond game to go Banana Splitand the last one Danny Swing Technique

Teddy Tennis has seven different tennis classes tailored to the following age categories and levels:

Tried and testing in over 20 countries across 5 continents, and with over 50,000 kids, these activities are also proven to aid the child’s early development skills and give them an opportunity to build and improve their self-confidence.

To know where and when the classes are offered or to make booking visit the link below 👇🏻

Dubai summer is intolerable and so we tend to spend more time indoors.

Below are 5 extraordinary games that I have enjoyed playing with Princess Z and am pretty sure you will enjoy and will definitely keep your kids entertained this summer

Guess Who?
Many of you might have heard about this game and the many forms it comes into.We went with the detachable board game.👇🏻

Guess Who?

How to Play?
A guessing game.Where each player choosing a character or an animal.Then each opponent player has to guess the character while asking yes or no questions to eliminate.For example does your character have brown hair? or does your animal have whiskers?.The player will then eliminate the character/animals by closing the doors of those images until ones left.The first one to discover the mystery person/animal wins .

With detachable boards this is a fun game to enjoy at home or during traveling.

Looping Louie
This game is all about protecting your chicken from a dizzy driver Louie👇🏻

Loopin’ Louie!

How to Play?
Switch on the game and see the airplane drop down and spin.When the airplane comes near to your chickens tokens,save them by pressing the paddle to flip him out of the way.He will fly in circles and loop the loop.Try aiming him towards other players chicken.The last player to have any chicken tokens left wins.

Pop! Pop! Piñata
Who doesn’t love piñatas.This game is just like popping a real piñata open.

Pop Pop! Pinata

How to Play?
There are two ways of playing this game (we play the second option mostly).
But firstly put the prizes in and spin the piñata to mix the prizes inside

First way of playing is hitting the piñata gently by pressing the party disc hit button on the bottom.The piñata will stay closed and only a few prizes will come out.Put the prizes in the cup and then it’s the next players turn.If the other player splits open the piñata you win!.

The second way of playing is by hitting the piñata harder and popping the prizes out.Like just a real piñata…everyone races to put the prizes in their cups.The player with the most prizes wins.

This game requires assemble and will be loved by all.
Note: contains small parts so definitely not suitable for children under 4
2-4players

MemoryGame
Ohh how Princess Z loves this game.Shes a big fan of Dora the Explorer so we bought her a Dora and Friends memory cards game from a local shop

Dora The Explorer Memory Game

How to Play?
Everyone knows how to play this game but will still tell you 😉.Flip the cards over two at a time to uncover,match the most pairs and the player with the most cards wins.

This game includes 72 cards in total…( 3 sets in purple,yellow & pink color)

This is a picture memory game so no reading. required.
Ages 3+
1 or more players

Bingo
Even though Princess Z is just 4 she plays this game really well and enjoys it.Everybody loves this number game specially when you get the first row of numbers and are the first one to say ‘Bingo’ 😉

How to Play?
Includes a number chart, x36 number cards and bingo chips.Its simple just pronounce one number at a time and place a bingo chip if you have it on your number card.If you complete a row shout out ‘bingo’.Even though this is a bit though for children below 6 it’s a great way for improving their number recognition skills.

Tip: When saying the number break it down to make it easy for the child (if they are playing along) like for example: instead of saying forty two (42), say four two forty-two (42).This will help the kids recognize the numbers without any help 😊.

Step 2 : Take the 2 long strips and glue them together making a cross.Glue the other 2 long strips, making a snowflake. (Do the same with the short strips)

Step 3 : Take the “snowflake” with long strips and start forming a paper ball.By gluing
the strips together, forming loops, until all strips are glued together and you get a nice looking ball.
(Do the same with the short strips “snowflake”.)

Now you got two sized paper balls.

Step 4 : Glue the paper balls together.

Step 5 : Cut the ears out of blue paper.
(Also cut a smaller set out of pastel pink and glue it inside the blue ears)

Step 6 : Cut a snout and draw a nose.
Also cut teeth out of white paper and draw a line in the middle with a black marker. Glue the teeth on the snout.

Step 7 : Glue the ears and the snout on the head (smaller ball) part of the bunny.

Add two wiggle eye stickers.

and your super easy Paper bunny is ready to be displayed

Pictures To Guide

Note: Follow the same process to make the pink paper bunny. 🐰

Easter Egg Decorating
All you need here are a few Easter eggs cutouts and let your kids paint ,color or stick stickers on it free hand.Creating colorful Easter eggs of their own.

All You Need For Creating Easter EggsEgg Decorating Can Be Done With Any Kind Of Medium.

P.S – These eggs can be strung together creating a garland or can be glued on a Easter card.

Craft Stick Puppets
These is a super cute craft.Great! to decorate cupcakes or easter baskets.

Step 4 : Place the craft sticks at the centre of the pipe cleaner. Start wrapping the pipe cleaners around them, twisting them on the back side of the craft stick.
When you’re half way through, make the wings by making the loop, as shown on the image above, twisting it a few times at the bottom of the loop (near the craft stick). Continue wrapping the pipe cleaner until you are done (cut it if it’s too long). Tuck the loose end under the wrapped pipe cleaner.

Follow Each Step Carefully!

Step 5: Stick on the face and you have your Easter craft stick puppets 🙂

Our visit to the St.Regis Winter Garden Market was short but fun.First of all I didn’t know there was actually a Christmas event going on over there but later found out by a family friend.As it was about to end (the next day 31st of December )didn’t wanted to miss it,so paid a visit the same evening.Set on the beautiful St.Regis hotel,on Shiekh Zayed Road this market is surely to be visited for a different experience.Its not very big though and (wouldn’t take much of your time) but rather the trip is short and fun.Princess Z and I surely enjoyed our time there .

Moving over,They had 2 separate outdoor zones.The market stall placed on the left and the kids entertainment zone on the right.We didn’t pay a visit to the food stall area as we weren’t hungry but directly when to the kids zone.Where they had quite a few entertainment for kids.From the choo choo mini-train,to the Carousel ride,a snow globe,A FREE snow fight zone, a small snack stall(selling popcorn and candy floss),gingerbread decorating area,coloring zone as well as a visit to Santa 🎅🏻 who was sitting and welcoming kids in his little Grotto for a FREE picture.Tickets were to be bought from the cashier desk ,each ride and snack costing you 10 Dhs.The great thing about all the rides was that they were quite long (around 10mins each)Princess Z did each of every thing except for the carousel,(she loved it and went on it twice).We couldn’t go for the snow globe as it was out of order 😞(Maybe next time).Anyway the total cost of our entertainment was 40Dhs (quite reasonable isn’t it).

After missing Christmas last year this year our trip to the Christmas celebration 🎄at Wafi mall was worth it.As princess Z is more sensible and grown up she totally enjoyed her time and was fascinated to see the beautiful Christmas display (The Wafi Express 🚂)around Santa’s Grotto.Here are a few pictures

The Express Train.Love the details!!The Present Factory

When we arrived, Santa 🎅🏻was on his break and was about to return in 15mins so we waited and were the first in line.At around exact 7:30 he arrived on his sleigh waving visitors on his way to his Grotto.Princess Z moving towards the ticket counter and on her way to meet him was totally excited 🎅🏻and couldn’t wait to get her hands on the special soft toy Santa had for her.When she saw him she was a bit nervous and scared but once he handed her the soft toy she got comfortable and I was really happy that this time she was brave enough to take a picture with Santa alone 🎅🏻👧🏻.

Santa has arrived on his sleigh

All this was for 60 Dhs (Meet & Greet Santa +Picture+Vouchers+Soft toy+Raffle coupon)

After collecting our picture we went to the arts and crafts corner where Princess Z enjoyed her time making a Christmas card with the given materials.(This craft zone is absolutely Free for kids and adults) 😁

The Activity AreaA Christmas Card in the making

When we were done with all the activities and were heading back home and I was wondering how much hard work and difficult it would have been to put the beautiful decoration and each and every detail of it to its perfection 😍

The prettiest Christmas Decoration.

Notes: The Christmas celebration is on in Wafi mall till the 24th December.Keeping in mind that Santa is on his break from 1:00-1:30PM & 7:00-7:30PM.
P.S-Best time to visit him is in the evening as the queue is way to long in the morning time and also Its better to carry exact amount to avoid delays.

Not only this Wafi has a lot more to offer this Christmas with the Light and Sound show happening till the 31st of Dec 2016

Show timings: 6:30PM,8:00PM & 9:30M this is also something worth watching if your planning to visit.

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Hello! and welcome to my blog.I'm Alina(the mama behind this blog). I'm from Karachi, Pakistan.Dubai has been my home for the past 26 years.(Have been brought up and raised here to Dubai). I graduated from the American University in Dubai with a degree in Interior Design. Read More…